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Crime
Question | Answer |
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What is a Victim of crime | A person who has been targeted in a crime |
What is an offender | A person who has committed a crime |
Who are the victims of crime | Business, Communities,individuals & Minority groups |
Name a group within society who are vulnerable to crime | Disabled, Children, Ethnic, Lesbian & Gay, Women |
Common crime against the elderly | Mugging, theft, assault, burlary, bogus callers |
What is the role of the Police service | Respond to call, investigate crimes,crimes dtection, victim support |
What is the role of the Probation service | work with Prisoners and work to rehabilitate individuals back into the community |
What is the role of the Prison service | Ensure that offenders of crime serve their punishment |
What is Victim support | A charity who focuses on helping support victims of crime |
What does CAB stand for | Citizen Advice Bureau |
What is the role of Rape Crisis | To support and raise awareness of sexual voilence within society |
How does crime impact society | Massive financial cost to soceity, causes emotional and psychology stress, impact on the health service |
What is a local crime intiative | a venture to find new and innvative way to do something especially reduce and prevent crime |
What is the purpose of a child curfew | To remove children from the streets who are unsupervised and may also be under the protection of social services |
What is the Purpose of crime prevention initiatives | the aim of these initiatives is to find new ways to reduce and prevent crime such as knife crime |
What does the NCRS stand for | National Crime Recording Standards |
What does NIM stand for | National intelligence model |
Who are the experts in terms of investigating a crime scene | Forensic Scientist |
what is a crime Scene | the place where a crime has occurred or any place where evidence of a crime is found |
Whats does DNA stand for | Deoxyribonucleic Acid this is the genectic material contained in the cells of living things |
What is Offender profiling | It is building a picture and understanding of an offender |
What does the CPS stand for | The Crown Prosecution Service |
What does Sentence mean | The Punishment that is given to a person which is found guilty by a criminal court |
What does Civial Law mean | British law that deal with private affairs of citizens such as marriage and property ownership |
What does criminal law mean | British law that deals with crimes and their punishment. |
What does custodial sentence mean | a sentence that involves some loss of freedom |
Where is evidence gathered from a crime scee stored | A crime scene data base |